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Microsoft and Nvidia CEOs to Unveil New AI Laptop in San Francisco
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CNBC TV18•07-10-2026, 15:48
Microsoft and Nvidia CEOs to Unveil New AI Laptop in San Francisco
- •Microsoft and Nvidia are set to unveil a new Surface Laptop Ultra powered by Nvidia chips at a San Francisco event.
- •The collaboration aims to shift AI tasks like writing code from costly cloud data centers to local Windows PCs.
- •Nvidia seeks to break into the Windows PC market traditionally dominated by Intel and Advanced Micro Devices.
- •Both companies face challenges regarding the safety of autonomous AI agents and surging hardware prices driven by a memory-chip crunch.
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang are introducing a new machine called the Surface Laptop Ultra at their San Francisco event.
Surging costs of its 128 gigabytes of memory and a broader memory-chip crunch have driven up hardware prices, significantly increasing the cost of running local AI machines.
The companies are shifting workload tasks—such as writing code—from costly Azure cloud data centers directly onto high-powered Windows machines running on Nvidia chips.
